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The 2017 UMass Garden Calendar is available for purchase, with information about successful gardening during a dry season, as well as special tips for container gardening and extensive lists of suggested drought tolerant annuals and perennials for New England gardens.
The cost is $12, with bulk...

Panelists will discuss Question 2, a referendum question on the November Massachusetts ballot that would authorize the approval of up to 12 new charter schools or enrollment expansions in existing charter schools by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education per year. The discussion will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in N151 Integrative Learning Center.

In conjunction with the Oct. 14 performance of Othello in the Seraglio, the UMass Amherst Department of Music will host a free opera workshop with the composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and Robert Labaree, ethnomusicologist and specialist in Turkish music, on Thursday, Oct. 13 from 5-6 p.m. in Bezanson...

In honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service and in accordance with a proclamation by the President of the United States, Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered that the United States and Commonwealth flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings on Sunday, Oct. 9 from sunrise...

SPIRE and other IT services will be unavailable between 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 and 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11 while Information Technology performs system maintenance.
The following services will be unavailable:
SPIRE
Electronic transcripts
Imaging System (ImageNow)
Data...

The campus will conduct a test of the UMass Amherst Alerts Emergency Notification System (ENS) on Thursday, Oct. 13 after 12:45 p.m., according to Jeff Hescock, director of university emergency management and business continuity.
This test is part of the university's continuing effort to test...

The universtiy is hosting a 36-hour, student-run HackUMass hackathon on the weekend of Oct. 7-9 beginning at 10 p.m. in the Integrative Learning Center and ending with an awards ceremony at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, in Mahar Auditorium. More than 600 participants are expected.
The largest...

Yasemin Gülsüm Acaris, a faculty member in the psychology department at Özyeğin University, Istanbul, will speak on “The role of empowerment and identity politicization on collective action participation” on Thursday, Oct. 13 from noon to 1 p.m. in 160 West Commonwealth...

There will be a bus trip to New York City on Sunday, Nov. 13 leaving from the Northampton Walmart parking lot at 7 a.m., with an additional pickup in South Deerfield at the Red Roof Inn at 6:15 a.m.
Free coffee and pastries will be served at the Walmart lot starting at 6:30 a.m. The bus leaves at...

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A new study led by environmental health scientist Richard Pilsner at UMass Amherst, one of the first to investigate whether preconception exposures to phthalates in fathers has an effect on reproductive success via embryo quality, found that exposures from select chemicals tested were associated with “a pronounced decrease in blastocyst quality” at an early stage in embryo development.

UMACC (the UMass Amherst Community Campaign) is off to a strong start, with $250,000 already pledged from 400 faculty, staff and retirees to help nonprofits find a caring mentor for a child, help families put food on the table and protect our rights.
When you give through UMACC, you decide where...

With frequent emergency events impacting college campuses throughout the country, the university wants to remind everyone about the services and resources available to the campus community during emergencies.
In addition, the sign-up process for UMass Amherst Alerts text messages has been improved...

Thank you to the 13,706 members of the UMass Amherst community who completed the 2016 Campus Climate Survey, supporting efforts to build a more respectful and inclusive campus environment for all. From Nov. 14 to the survey’s close at midnight Dec. 4, a total of 41.4 percent of students, faculty and staff members completed the voluntary survey.

People

Dovi J. Afesi, 71, of Easthampton, a former assistant professor in Afro-American studies, died Dec.2.
He was born June 23, 1945, to the Ewe people in the village of Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana. He grew up in Ghana and...

Catherine Portuges, professor of comparative literature and director of the interdepartmental program in film studies, organized a panel on “Émigré Directors in Hollywood: New Perspectives on (Mutual) Influence” for the 48th annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies held Nov. 17-20 in Washington, D.C

Michael Jonas Wolff, 89, professor emeritus of English and a founding father of the field of Victorian studies, died Nov. 5.
He was born July 2, 1927, in London. During the Blitz he was moved from London to St. Edward...